The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has called for the resignation of the governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, over the state of insecurity in the state.
Speaking at a press conference in Owerri, the state capital, on Thursday, June 3, the PDP chairman in the state, Charles Ugwu, said that the...
Hours after it was reported that the House of Representatives have received a proposal which suggested United African Republic or United Alkebulan Republic as Nigeria's new name, it has become one of the trending topics on social media.
Adeleye Jokotoye, a tax consultant submitted the proposal to the committee at the South...
An airplane got stuck in the mud in Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, while trying to take off.
The Ethiopian Airlines flight skidded off the runway and ran into a muddy area where it got stuck.
Footage from the scene shows airport workers trying to get the plane out of...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council OYC has petitioned the International Criminal Court (ICC), the United Kingdom and United States of America USA over the tweet posted by President Buhari making reference to the civil war.
In a statement signed by the National President of OYC, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the group alleged...
Police in Nansana municipality, Uganda have arrested 44 people for organizing and attending a same sex traditional marriage.
Spokesperson for the Kampala Metropolitan Police, Luke Owoyesigyire, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, May 31, said police received a tip off about a group of men suspected to be homosexuals conducting...
Gunmen attacked a car carrying Ugandan Minister of Works and Transport, General Katumba Wamala, in an attempted assassination, killing his daughter and driver.
It was gathered that four attackers on motorcycles opened fire at a vehicle carrying the former army commander, in the Kampala suburb of Kiasasi, on Tuesday morning, June 1.
According to...
A former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell (L), and a former Director with Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Prof. Robert Rotberg (R), have said it is time for the United States to acknowledge that Nigeria is a failed state.
Campbell and Rotberg said this is in light...
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state has described the killing of former presidential aide, Ahmed Gulak, as politically motivated.
Gulak was murdered while on his way to the airport in Owerri, the Imo state capital on Sunday, May 30.
Speaking at a press conference today May 31, Governor Uzodimma said he...
The chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Buba Marwa, has revealed that the NDLEA is currently investigating N30bn slush funds believed to be proceeds of drugs.
He disclosed this in Abuja on Monday, May 31, while giving commendation letters to 45 outstanding officers as well as the best...
The remains of Ahmed Gulak, the former presidential aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has been buried.
He was laid to rest at the Gudu Cemetery in Abuja on Sunday night, May 30, at about 8pm. His funeral service was held at the National Mosque, Abuja.
Gulak was killed while driving to...
Streets in many parts of the SouthEast states are currently deserted following the sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB. The order is to mark two days of Remembrance for Biafra Day.
Many state governments and security agents last week asked residents of the state to ignore the...
Leaders of the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have suspended Mali from their regional bloc in response to last week’s coup, the second coup in nine months by the poor Sahel country's military.
The group which stopped short of imposing new sanctions like those it imposed after the coup...
Another office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have been set ablaze in Imo State.
The INEC office at Okwudor in Njaba Local Government Area of the state was burnt down on Sunday morning, May 30, less than 24 hours after Atta police station, customary and high courts were burnt...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former aide to ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan, has been killed by unknown gunmen in Imo state.
Gulak was shot dead on Saturday night, May 29, by unknown gunmen while returning to Abuja from Owerri, Imo state capital.
The state police command is yet to comment...
The Lagos State Government says it it is still counting its losses from the #EndSARS protest that was hijacked by hoodlums in October 2020.
The hoodlums went on rampage destroying public facilities in the state. The protest was organised by young people to call for the end of police brutality across...
A delegation from the National Assembly have visited Embraer Defence Security Incorporated (EDSI), manufacturers of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) A-29 Super Tucano aircraft.
The Nigerian Air Force shared photos from the visit on Twitter. It was also gathered that the NASS team visited the company in the US to assess the...
Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has released a gospel music featuring his wife, Judith. A video shared online shows the couple singing in spirit and in truth.
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The Imo state government has asked residents of the state to ignore a sit-at-home order issued by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on May 29 and May 30.
The state's Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, while speaking in Owerri, the state capital on Thursday, May 27, said residents of...
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, today May 28, disclosed that the jewelry forfeited by the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke is worth N14.4 billion.
Bawa made the disclosure when he appeared before the House of Representatives committee.
''Jewelry forfeited from the former...
A Pretoria high court on Thursday May 27, sentenced a convicted serial rapist who raped and robbed 56 women across Pretoria suburbs for five years, to 1,088 years in prison.
33-year-old Sello Abram Mapunya was convicted on Wednesday May 26, for 41 rapes and 40 separate house breakings and house robberies, as well...
Gunmen suspected to Fulani herdsmen attacked Shikaan Mbagena Kpav community in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State, killing at least 36 residents.
It was gathered that the assailants stormed the community in the early hours of Thursday, May 27 and slaughtered the victims including some students of the College...
The World Bank has approved a $700 million loan for the Nigeria Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (SURWASH).
In a statement released Thursday, May 27, the World Bank said the loan will provide six million people with basic drinking water services and 1.4 million people...
President Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
He takes over from Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in an air crash last Friday, May 21.
Prior to his appointment, Major General Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army...
The Lagos State Government has sealed the Mingy Trading Company Limited, located at No 11, Ila Orangun Street, Ijegun-Egba, Satellite Town, for violating the State’s safety rules that led to the death of a teenage worker.
TM had reported that 17-year-old Babatunde Abdulrahmon died after he was sucked into a mixing machine...
Former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has found love again. This time, the lawyer and politician is head over heels in love with a beauty queen, Miss Ezenwa Chika Nerita who was crowned as Queen of Aso International 2019/2020.
This comes a few months after he parted ways with the mother...
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington at Tacoma, has ordered the indefinite detention of Governor Dapo Abiodun's aide, Bidemi Rufai who is accused of being involved in $350,000 COVID-19 unemployment fraud in the United States.
The Ogun state Governor's aide was arrested at a US airport on May...
Popular Adamawa politician, Barr. Jamila Babuba, 45, has married her 23-year-old man, Adam Modibbo, in Yola, Adamawa state capital.
The couple had a ceremony on the 18th of May and their wedding reception will hold on 31st of May.
See more photos of the couple and the invitation to their wedding reception...
A chief in Zimbabwe has ordered the exhumation and reburial of Robert Mugabe's remains at the national heroes' shrine in Harare after accusing the late leader's wife of breaking local custom by burying him at his rural home in 2019.
Mugabe, who was ousted in a coup that brought Emmerson...
A bill seeking to scrap National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme has reached its second reading in the House of Representatives.
The bill titled Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alteration Bill, 2020, is sponsored by a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker from Rivers state, Awaji-Inombek Abiante.
In the explanatory memorandum of the...
Governor Samuel Ortom has told residents of Benue state to defend themselves with dane guns and other weapons not prohibited by the law, when attacked by gunmen.
Ortom gave the directive at an inter-denominational church service held at the government house in Makurdi, Benue capital on Sunday May 23.
He further disclosed...
Pharaoh Okadigbo, the first son of former President of the Senate, Dr Chuba Okadigbo, has died in an accident.
The accident occurred on Saturday, May 22, in Abuja.
This comes three years after tragedy befell the family when Obiajulu Jideofor Okadigbo, one of Dr Chuba Okadigbo's sons, died in the United States of...
Rahman Malami who is one of the sons of the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, got married to his fiancee, Aisha Humairah Ibrahim Umar, in Kano today May 22.
The wedding fatiha took place at the Al-Furqan mosque, Alu Avenue, Kano. Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal presented...
A Ghanaian man, Anass Kassim has reportedly cancelled his wedding with wife-to-be, Alhassan Hubaiba over alleged infidelity.
Mr Kassim took to Facebook two days ago to announce that the wedding slated for June 20, 2021, has been cancelled.
"Sorry to inform everyone that our wedding has been cancelled! Thank you." he...
The Accident Investigation Bureau has announced that the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) from the crashed Beechcraft 350 aircraft that led to the deaths of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 other officers, have been recovered.
AIB’s General Manager of Public...
The Nigerian army has confirmed the death of Chief of Army Staff, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru.
The army said the aircraft was enroute to Kaduna from Abuja on Friday, 21 May, when the unfortunate incident happened.
It also said details of the crash burial arrangements will be communicated to the public soon.
Here is...
The widow of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has reportedly been fined five cows and two goats for 'improperly' burying her husband after he passed away.
A traditional court met on Thursday morning in the absence of Grace Mugabe, to reach their decision, a source close to the family said.
The...
A military training aircraft has crashed at the Kaduna airport with all eight persons on board the aircraft feared dead including Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru. The crash occurred this evening May 21.
The Nigeria Air Force says the cause of the crash is yet unknown.
Video footage from...
Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has attacked the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, over his comments on the decision of the Southern Governors Forum to ban open grazing in their respective States.
Malami while speaking in an interview with Channels TV on Wednesday May...
The Senate on Wednesday, May 19, urged the federal government to halt the deployment of 5th generation (5G) network in Nigeria for now.
This followed the consideration and adoption of the report of the joint Senate Committee on Communications, Science and Technology, ICT, Cyber Crime and Primary Healthcare and Communicable...
President Buhari has arrived Nigeria after his official visit to Paris, France where he attended the Africa Financial Summit.
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The Nigerian military has said that it is yet to receive information on alleged death of leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau.
It was reported on Thursday, May 20, that Shekau was killed in a fight with a Boko Haram faction of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP).
Director...
A bill seeking to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom for the release of any person kidnapped, imprisoned or wrongfully confined in the country was on Wednesday May 19 considered by the Nigerian senate.
The bill titled Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which stipulates a 15-year jail sentence for anyone found...
The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested a 40-year-old woman, Salomi Jerome, and her husband, Igina Salomi, 50, for allegedly trafficking a stolen baby from Delta to Kano.
Commander-General of the board, Dr Harun Ibn-sina, who disclosed this in a statement issued by the spokesperson, Malam Lawan Ibrahim, on Tuesday, May...
Suspected members of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have reportedly caused the death of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the dreaded Boko Haram, officially known as Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah Lid Da’wah Wa’l- Jihad (JAS) during a fierce battle between the rival groups in their Sambisa Forest hideouts on...
Efforts by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA to block access and availability of illicit substances have again led to the interception of a container bearing 4,996,200 capsules of tramadol weighing 2,498.2 kilograms at the Onne Port, Port Harcourt, Rivers state.
A statement released by Femi Babafemi, spokesperson of...
A Nigerian man, Abubakar Sale, has been arrested at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, with 54 ATM cards.
Sale was arrested by officers of the Nigeria Customs while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airplane to Turkey. Upon his arrest, he was discovered to be carrying 54 ATM cards of different...
The leader of the Indigenious People of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has dismissed claims that men of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, were behind the various attacks in the Southern part of Nigeria.
Kanu on December 13 2020 launched the ESN security outfit due to the rising insecurity in the region.
There...
Southern Governors have gotten the backing of Speakers of the southern states’ House of Assembly over the agreement that was reached in Asaba, Delta state's capital few days ago.
The Speakers in a resolution signed by the Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Sheriff Oborevwori, who doubles as the Deputy National...
Five suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested by the operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) for offences bordering on cybercrime.
The suspects are Oladosu Olakunmi Olamilekan, Olaoye Jamiu Olarewaju, Alimi Abiodun, Toheed Muritala and Afolabi Kamaldeen.
The suspect were arrested at the International Airport,...
The Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has dissolved his cabinet, sacking all of his 25 Commissioners, Secretary to the State Government, Chief of Staff Government House, Senior Political Adviser, and others.
Disclosing this to newsmen, the immediate past Commissioner for Information, Charles Aniagwu, said the move was to give room for fresh blood...
The Ijaw Youth Council has given the international oil companies (IOCs) operating in the Niger Delta an ultimatum to vacate the region.
The council said the notice is in line with the 30 days ultimatum handed to the Federal Government to inaugurate a substantive board of the Niger Delta Development...
The British Government has formally paid the £4,214,017.66 looted funds recovered from family members and associates of former Delta State Governor, James Ibori.
A statement released by Umar Gwandu, spokesperson of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said that as at May 10, the naira...
Jigawa State Hisbah has confiscated 308 bottles of assorted alcoholic drinks in a raid on a hotel in Gumel Local Government Area of the State.
The State Hisbah commander, Malam Ibrahim Dahiri, who disclosed this to newsmen in Dutse on Saturday, May 15, said the raid was carried out on Friday morning.
He...
The lawyer to Nollywood actor Olanrewaju James Omiyinka popularly known as Baba Ijesha, Adesina Ogunlana, has said his client is traumatized in police detention.
Baba Ijesha has been in police custody since his arrest in April for allegedly defiling the 14-year-old foster child of a popular comedian Princess.
In a letter addressed...
Scores of Nigerian Muslims have stormed the streets in the northern parts of the country on Thursday, May 13, 2021, to protest the bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Palestine by the Israeli soldiers.
The protests, which started on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 and spilled into Wednesday and Thursday, May...
